We here at work are at the mercy of the Linux Administrators to do their jobs. Since they can't seem to do this and our /var partition ran out of space Friday our Oracle Applications crashed. It looks like we will have to monitor the health of our RH Enterprise 2.x server to make sure this doesn't happen again. Is there any good piece of free open source software that does such a job?
Thanks
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James Sissel wrote:
We here at work are at the mercy of the Linux Administrators to do their jobs. Since they can't seem to do this and our /var partition ran out of space Friday our Oracle Applications crashed. It looks like we will have to monitor the health of our RH Enterprise 2.x server to make sure this doesn't happen again. Is there any good piece of free open source software that does such a job?
Thanks
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* James Sissel (jimsissel@yahoo.com) wrote:
We here at work are at the mercy of the Linux Administrators to do their jobs. Since they can't seem to do this and our /var partition ran out of space Friday our Oracle Applications crashed. It looks like we will have to monitor the health of our RH Enterprise 2.x server to make sure this doesn't happen again. Is there any good piece of free open source software that does such a job?
www.nagios.org
my $0.0000002 on the subject (it was $0.02, but uncle same had to take his portion before I could pass it on to the LUG)
I'm using fruity 1.0b1pl3 with nagios 2.0b1pl4 here, its a PITA to configure initially but its worth it once setup (both fruity and nagios.) The standard disclaimer for beta software applies twice here. Once nagios 2.0 has gone 'final' the fruity developer of course plans on chasing all the loose cats into a corral and calling it final. Most of the issues I ran into with setting up fruity and nagios has been user error. So if you do take the plung, RTFM over and over and over again. either that or dont skim it 1400 times like I did ;) The functionality of nagios comes from the external plugins. Spend your time researching plugins for what you need to do. I've heard as of late there are issues with NRPE and windows machines, luckily I dont have to mess with any windows machines...yet.
Regards,
Matt
On 8/22/05, dan radom dan@radom.org wrote:
- James Sissel (jimsissel@yahoo.com) wrote:
We here at work are at the mercy of the Linux Administrators to do their jobs. Since they can't seem to do this and our /var partition ran out of space Friday our Oracle Applications crashed. It looks like we will have to monitor the health of our RH Enterprise 2.x server to make sure this doesn't happen again. Is there any good piece of free open source software that does such a job?
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On 12:53:29 pm 08/22/05 James Sissel jimsissel@yahoo.com wrote:
We here at work are at the mercy of the Linux Administrators to do their jobs. Since they can't seem to do this and our /var partition ran out of space Friday our Oracle Applications crashed. It looks like we will have to monitor the health of our RH Enterprise 2.x server to make sure this doesn't happen again. Is there any good piece of free open source software that does such a job?
We use simple perl/bash scripts that collect command line information (ps aux, df -h, ifconfig, etc) then call them via a cron job that is piped to the mail command. It's a simple way to get a daily status report for each server via email.
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